[KLUG Members] missing mouse curser

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 12:13 -0500, Brock Inglehart wrote:
> Installed SUSE 9.1 pro on a Compact R3240US laptop.  This laptop uses an AMD 
> 64 bit processor.  Am using Std. default KDE desktop.
> When connected to a remote monitor.  The screen is up and running fine but the 
> mouse cursor does not show on the remote monitor.  It does on the laptop's 
> local screen and works fine.  It just doesn't show on the remote. How can I 
> fix?

I don't know if it is related, but i get this on my laptop if I don't
explicity toggle to use the external display.  That is - plugging in an
external display may make the display appear, but the pointer is absent
till I Fn-F5 to toggle to use the external display.